1. Cities face Occupy movement's 'mass day'.
Protesters in New York launched what they called an effort to "shut down Wall Street" Thursday morning at the beginning of a nationwide day of what could be the largest protests yet by the Occupy movement.
From New York to Los Angeles, organizers were calling for a "mass day of action" to mark two months since the movement began. A heavy police presence was in place as protesters kicked off the effort with a large group of demonstrators marching on Wall Street. CNN personnel could see about a dozen people arrested, including a retired Philadelphia police captain, Ray Lewis, who had joined with the Occupy Wall Street protesters. CNN saw him arrested as he stood in the middle of a street near Wall Street on Thursday morning.
2. 6 killed as storms sweep across South.
Search teams combed through rural South Carolina Thursday morning, a day after strong storms swept through the Southeast, killing at least six people and causing injuries in several states. At least three people died and five others were taken to hospitals after a storm hit York County in South Carolina, according to the sheriff's office. "This is considered a search-and-rescue operation at this time," said Lt. Mike Baker of the county sheriff's office. The county coroner's office said authorities are unsure whether the number of deaths will go up.
3. Penn State, college football's biggest crisis.
College football is in a real institutional identity crisis. The range of reactions to the Penn State scandal, from Penn State University itself to the NCAA to the American people, tells us that we don't know what college football is or what it should be.
The NCAA's response has been little better. NCAA President Mark Emmert released a statement last week, saying, "The NCAA will defer in the immediate term to law enforcement officials since this situation involved alleged crimes. ... To be clear, civil and criminal law will always take precedence over Association rules." While perhaps technically correct, the victims, as well as the college football community, deserve more of a response than this.

 

1. Supreme Court takes up challenge to health care reform law.
 As expected, the Supreme Court has agreed to decide the constitutionality of the sweeping health care reform law championed by President Barack Obama.The justices made their announcement in a brief order issued Monday.Oral arguments are likely to be held in late February or March, with a ruling by June, assuring the blockbuster issue will become a hot-button political debate in a presidential election year.
2. Iran may reconsider atomic watchedog cooperation.
Iranian lawmakers want Tehran to reassess its cooperation with the U.N. atomic agency after the latter published what Iran calls a "politically motivated" report on its nuclear program, state-run Press TV reported
Ali Larijani, speaker of the parliament, said Sunday the report by the International Atomic Energy Agency was based on outdated information from the United States and Israel.
3. American Eagle fined for tarmac delays.
American Eagle suffered a dubious distinction Monday, becoming the first airline to get fined for excessive tarmac delays, according to the U.S. Department of Transportation.
The government agency fined American Eagle, a subsidiary of American Airlines' AMR Corp., (AMR, Fortune 500) a a civil penalty of $900,000 for delays that occurred earlier this year at Chicago O'Hare International Airport.

 

1. Romney finds himself man to beat in South Carolina.
Something funny could happen on the way to the Republican presidential nomination next year.
Mitt Romney might actually win South Carolina. A triumph by the former Massachusetts governor in the first-in-the-South primary state has long been considered unthinkable by Republican insiders here, where Romney's northern pedigree and evolving positions on core conservative issues have been viewed with skepticism since his last White House bid in 2008. But, as in Iowa, Romney is holding steady at or near the top of the polls in the Palmetto State with roughly a quarter of the GOP vote in his corner. And crucially, no other candidate has managed to rally conservatives and emerge as a serious alternative to the presumed front-runner.
2. Major League catcher kidnapped in Venezuela.
Venezuelan federal authorities on Thursday dispatched their "best investigators" to track the kidnappers of Major League Baseball catcher Wilson Ramos, the country's justice minister said. Ramos, a rising star for the Washington Nationals, was snatched from his family home in central Venezuela by gunmen Wednesday night, a team spokeswoman said. The 24-year-old emerged as the Nationals' top catcher this past season. He had a .267 batting average with 15 home runs and 52 runs batted in. This past year was his rookie season, and he was back in his home country playing for the Aragua Tigers in Venezuela's winter league.
The Nationals could not confirm the kidnapping, but they published a statement citing Tiger's spokeswoman Kathe Vilera. Ramos was kidnapped by four armed men from his home in Santa Ines, in Carabobo state, Vilera said on Twitter. "It's sad, worrisome and true that Wilson Ramos was kidnapped," she wrote.
The vehicle believed to have been used in the kidnapping was found in the town of Bejuma, about 60 miles from where Ramos was kidnapped, the country's justice and interior minister, Tareck El Aissami.
3. 'Horrified' mother of Penn State victim wants 'justice'. 
Penn State tackled the ugly fallout of the child sex abuse scandal Friday, as authorities planned to create a special panel to investigate the allegations and students prepared for a nighttime vigil in support of the victims. The scandal revolves around Jerry Sandusky, the football team's former defensive coordinator who is accused of sexually assaulting children, and it led to the departure of four top university figures, including nationally revered coach Joe Paterno, amid widespread outrage over their perceived failure to contact police.

1. An 'opps' that could mean 'over' for Perry.
Three is hard. I'll start by quoting the silence heard around the political world during Wednesday night's CNBC Republican presidential debate. Here were Texas Gov. Rick Perry's words in the middle of one of his answers: "I will tell you: It's three agencies of government, when I get there, that are gone: Commerce, Education and the -- what's the third one there? Let's see. ... OK. So Commerce, Education and the -- ... The third agency of government I would -- I would do away with the Education, the ... Commerce and -- let's see -- I can't. The third one, I can't. Sorry. Oops."
2. Initial unemployment claims drop to 7-month low.
 Fewer Americans filed for their first week of unemployment benefits last week, marking continued -- but still slow -- improvement in the job market.
About 390,000 people filed for initial unemployment benefits in the week ended Nov. 5, the Labor Department said Thursday. The number of claims fell 10,000 from the revised 400,000 in the prior week, and is now at the lowest level since April 2.
3. Despite 12-hour meeting, no deal reached in NBA lockout.
NBA players and owners did not reach a deal early Thursday on the bitter labor struggle that has postponed the basketball season, but the two sides agreed to meet again later in the day to continue with the negotiations.

   

1. Pentagon taking closer look at Dover Morgue Where Body Parts Were Lost
The Pentagon is launching a drive to reassure members of the military and their families that flaws in the handling of human remains at the Dover military mortuary - including two instances of lost body parts - have been fixed.
2. Former Rugby Player Claims Stroke Turned Him Gay
A former British rugby player claims a stroke turned him gay overnight, the Daily Mail reported.
Chris Birch, 26, a bank clerk, broke his neck while attempting a back flip and suffered a stroke in 2005. When he woke up, he told his family he was no longer interested in women.
3. Scandal Claims a Legend
Penn State head football coach Joe Paterno announces he will retire at the end of this season amid allegations of child sex abuse by his former defensive coordinator, Jerry Sandusky.

1. The 22- Year- Old who led the charge against Bank of America

When Bank of America announced that it would charge customers a $5 monthly debit-card fee in late September, it probably did not count on a 22-year-old woman standing in its way.

2. Should Joe Paterno survive Penn State's child sex scandal?

If it’s all true — if any part of it is true, really – it’s difficult to imagine Joe Paterno surviving the unspeakable scandal unfolding at Penn State.

3. Joe Frazier, former heavyweight boxing champ dies at 67

Joe Frazier, the former heavyweight boxing champ who died of liver cancer on Nov. 7 at 67, won't go down in history as the greatest fighter of all time. Muhammad Ali, the man with whom Frazier sparred so epically, both inside and outside the ropes, owns that distinction. Frazier's role in his rival's outsize life will always define his own legacy: it's impossible to mention "Smokin' Joe" without summoning Ali a few seconds later.

Read more: http://newsfeed.time.com/2011/11/08/should-joe-paterno-survive-penn-states-child-sex-scandal/#ixzz1d8KwVhWM

In a dictatorship, the only way to get rid of it is by starting violence.  Violence undermines dictatorships when the people of a totalitarianism country want to change their governmental ways.  This is the same for propaganda, it undermines democracy.  Propaganda is bad for democracy and will be the demise of it at some point if we keep failing to recognize it.
 As far as the movie goes, it was quite boring but it did help me get an insight into what Noam Chomsky was trying to accomplish and how influential the media really is in our world and everyday life.